I believe if you purchase ascorbic acid powder or vitamin C powder, it will keep indefinitely. Vitamin C is a preservative and antioxidant, so I doubt it degrades itself. Not the tablets with filler are a completely different thing.
Marshall Douglas Haack wrote: > BROOKS B's suggestion of planting Rooted Rosa Rugosa is a timely and > practical suggestion. > > My question is -- how does one put -- bottles of 1000 mg Vitamin C > into store?? -- I ask the followint questions -- meant to be a "short > er term" option. Vitamin C tablets and Powder obviously has a LIMITED > SHELF LIFE. > > What might be the best way TO EXTEND THIS SHELF LIFE? Can one extend > the SHELF LIFE? > > 1) Does one use VACUUM packing? > 2) Use a CANNING PROCESS? > 3 What is the practical Shelf Life of say, Vitamin C? > > These question are meant to be food for thought!!! Listers -- put on > your thinking caps!! > > The questions apply to other vitamins etc etc. > > > HERE IS THE REAL QUESTION: Why should the average vitamin > manufacturer object to CODEX?? > > They will simply comply en masse without a murmur -- formulating the > smaller/less milligram pill/s as the new law will demand. > > AND . . . they'll all make lots more money!! You watch, they 'll ALL > make more money for putting LESS into the formulations!! > > So let's not kid ourselves -- when did you see a product get really > cheaper when reformulated?? > > So start preparing yourself. > > The poorer people of Europe before and during the two world wars used > large earthen jars to marinate vegetables -- cabbage, cucumbers etc in > their cellars. This got them thru the long winters without scurvy etc. > > My German mother and her older sister related these practices to me. I > must add my mother actually hated marinated cabbage, having been > forced to eat this type of fare -- growing up before WWII and being > forced to continue marinating and eating the results during the war in > Germany. > > I can remember after emmigrating to Australia in 1949 at the age of 5, > my family were placed on a lare acreage sheep farm as their first > employment. I can still see the farm manager wheel in half a sheep and > hang it up in a large wire meat safe -- for our consumtion. > > We had never seen so much meat -- especially so much at our personal > disposal. With all the other produce, we though we were in heaven!! > > > in SILvation, Douglas H
